- Courtney Shepherd: I can always say you gave me the combination to the safe. I'm not the only one you sent to jail, you know. There're a lot of people who'd like to see you hang!
- Bat Masterson: I'm a gambler, Court. Let's see which one they choose..
- Fletcher: What's the shooting all about?
- [sees the bank's safe opened and its contents strewn around Court's body]
- Fletcher: Our money!
- Bat Masterson: Yours, Platte River Bank's, and even honest citizens'.
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- Narrator: Western Wyoming Territory - 1880. This country was refuge for the last of the long trail riders. It was also the setting for one of the oddest episodes in the life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.